Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914)
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Sir Hubert von Herkomer was a British painter born at Waal, in Bavaria. At the age of eight, Herkomer moved to England with his father, a wood-carver of great ability. He lived for some time in Southampton, where he began his art training. By 1866, he entered a more advanced program in a South Kensington Schoolm. A few years later in 1869, Herkomer exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy.
Herkomer was elected an associate of the Academy in 1879, and academician in 1890. Herkomer was also an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours (1893), ans became a full member in 1894. Herkomer’s many accolades helped him to become a professor at Slade in Oxford.
Herkomer exhibited a number of memorable portraits, figure subjects and landscapes. He mostly worked in oil and watercolour, but achieved marked success as a worker in enamel, etching, mezzotint engravings and illustrative drawings. Herkomer opened his own school, The Herkomer School (Incorporated), at Bushey, which he founded in 1883 and directed without payment until 1904, when he retired.
Two of his paintings, Found (1885) and The Chapel of the Charterhouse (1889), are in the Tate Gallery. In the year 1907, he received the honorary degree of DCL at Oxford, and was knighted by the king, in addition to the commandership of the Royal Victorian Order.
Herkomer was also a pioneering filmmaker and established a studio in Lululaund, where he directed a number of historical costume dramas.
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